LSU’s Poa Out Of SEC Tournament Championship With A Concussion – News18

GREENVILLE, S.C.: LSU guard Last-Tear Poa is not going to play within the Southeastern Conference Tournament championship sport after struggling a concussion late in Saturday’s win over Mississippi.

Poa fell exhausting and hit her head in opposition to the court docket. She was helped up and briefly took a couple of steps earlier than laying again flat on the bottom and paramedics have been referred to as.

Poa left the court docket on a stretcher and was evaluated at St. Francis Hospital, the place she was identified with a concussion and launched in a single day.

An LSU spokesman mentioned Poa wouldn’t be on the area Sunday, as an alternative watching the sport on the staff resort.

Poa is a 5-foot-11 junior from Australia. She had began the previous three video games with SEC freshman of the yr Mikaylah Williams nursing a sore foot.

Williams was participating in warmups Sunday earlier than the eighth-ranked Tigers (28-4) took on No. 1 South Carolina (31-0) within the title sport.

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